Norvic Philatelics - GB New Stamps and Special Postmarks

Comedy Greats - 1 April 2015

Of all the traits used to describe the British around the
world, it is their sense of humour that is considered the most
distinctive. The Comedy Greats stamps celebrate
the wealth of home-grown comic talent produced in the
UK, from stand-ups and double acts to
satirists and surrealists, stalwarts of stage and radio to
stars of film and television from the past 60 years,
and including many whose work is considered a landmark in
comedy.

2015 marks the centenary of the birth of Norman Wisdom and
50th anniversary of first broadcast of Peter Cook and Dudley
Moore’s ‘Not Only But Also’.

Designed by award-winning creative consultants The Chase, the
stamps feature photographs of the ten chosen individuals, duos
and one group – Spike Milligan, The Two Ronnies, Billy Connolly,
Morecambe and Wise, Norman Wisdom, Lenny Henry, Peter Cook and
Dudley Moore, Monty Python, French and Saunders, and Victoria
Wood.

Retail Booklet

The Norman Wisdom and Morecambe and Wise
stamps will also be issued in a self-adhesive booklet of 6 stamps with 4 x
1st class red Machin definitives at £3.78

Technical details:

The stamps were designed by The Chase and are printed by International
Security Printers in lithography. The 41 x 30mm stamps are perf 14.5
x 14 in sheets of 25/50 with all over phosphor.
The stamps will be issued in two sheets of 25/50 with five se-tenant
designs per sheet, enabling customers to buy a vertical strip of five of
any individual stamp.

The self-adhesive booklet is printed by Walsall Security Print and the
definitives have the codes M15L MCIL

Set of 10 stamps (2 strips of 5) --
Strip of 5 from sheet 1 or sheet 2, or vertical strip of 5 of any single
stamp
First day cover --
Presentation pack -- Stamp
cards (set of 10) - retail booklet

Special Postmarks

Postmarks available for the day of
issue are shown here. These postmarks cannot be obtained
after the date of issue. The
images shown here may not be to scale.

* Late
announcement - send covers/cards to London Handstamp Centre as soon as
possible!

Ref FD1513TH Philatelic Bureau Official Postmark

Ref FD1513PL Laughterron, Luton Official Postmark

Ref FD1513NP
Laughterton, Lincoln Official non-pictorial Postmark

Ref M13376 Ernest Street, Birmingham

Ref
L13389*
Parrotts Lane, Tring, Herts

Ref N13382 - Morecambe

Ref N13383 - Clowne

Ref N13384 Laughterton, Lincoln

N13385 Sunshine Garden of Fame
Morecambe

Ref L13380 Marylebone

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